The Redneck Salon - Blood Theory

The death penalty: one of Mans oldest punishments for murder, which when applied makes no room for reversal or appeal. One that demands a killer pay with his or her life for a terrible crime. An eye for an eye as the old testament says, and my eyes are death obssessed.
I believe blood should follow blood, and that every murderer, not just the raging maniacs and child molesters, should be executed after one review of the case has run its course. No endless parade of appeals or petitions, no 15 year wait on death row. Just a cell with a radio and book to pass the time until that dawn walk to the gallows.
Death on the streets is becoming more common as life gets cheaper by the day, and people are quick to thrust blades into anothers heart. On the feral estates in parts of Britain murder has gotten trendy and gangs of youths hanging around in shadowy corners are not just rowdy teenagers with a bit of backchat anymore. They have lost all respect for authority and in doing so have turned into vicious rattlesnakes, ready to strike fatally at passers by.
Life can be short on the wildside even for peaceful pedestrians walking by, and life in the courts of justice has become equally as short. A 20 year old killer today will be free by the time he is 30, sometimes before.
So what price life? Death, it has to be.
The death penalty is not about revenge and neither is it a deterrant. The eye for an eye in the old testament was talking about justice, a fitting price to pay. And so it must be that every single murderer in prison today has earned death. They ought not to be drawing breath at this very moment, they should not be playing videogames in heated cells. They should not be getting meals, post, visits, medication, water, television, soap, kisses at visiting times, or any other of lifes pleasantries. Killers should be dead. At the end of their story. In a pine box with a broken neck. They deserve nothing. This is what they have given their victims.
There will be no more birthdays for them. No specially prepared meals on anniversaries or travels to foreign lands. No gold at their rainbows end. Innocent victims of murder did no wrong. Were simply going about their buisness, often helping others as they went, when suddenly life is cruelly cut short in a merciless act. It is the ultimate betrayal of all that is decent. To not only rob a person of their goods and money but to steal the very breath in their lungs. To take away everything. There can be nothing more wretched and the death of innocence demands a fitting retribution. Skin for skin, bone for bone, blood for blood.
We should be ashamed to let killers walk free after comitting murder. The victims graveyard is forever swelling whilst sentences are shrinking. Justice? Definately not. Anyone who forgives this heinous act is not more human but less.
It was a sorry time when Britain (and others) abolished the death penalty. As a whole we became the killers friend, and a lot less kinder to innocence. And make no mistake we shall be rewarded for discarding the noose as punishment, only the rewards will not be sweetness and roses. It will be more death, more diseased actions from the hooded and many many freshly dug graves looking like scars across the country, reminding us that forgiveness pays in coffins.
It is not revenge to execute a killer. Revenge is a lot harsher than dying on the gallows. Nor is death a deterrant because life in solitary could deter just as well. Having the death penalty is simply punishment, you kill and you will be served with what you deserve; death. No more, no less.
Life in prison is no justice; in the lofty realms of the scheme of things a jail sentence for murder does nothing. The killer lives and spits in the eye of the victim. Its a terrible injustice but most cannot see it, they are ignorant to foul play. I can almost hear the victims weeping in their caskets.
Shame on us for allowing it to happen. Emotion has found a way into laws when none should exist. We cower in fear from cold justice and one day we will mourn the hemp rope. When all we have are killers and victims, the hand of death shall rise again upon savage hearts. There are not enough jails and murder is getting easier. Punishment can only go two ways of course: we can get more lenient or more severe. Worryingly mankind has opted for the latter option in todays cotton livered attitudes but time WILL turn again. As peoples fear grows so too will their frustrations, and murder will no longer be tolerated. Everything is cyclical and whether it takes 50 years or 500 the gallows will return to despatch swift and deserved punishment.
And let the scaffold stand alone as a method of execution. America muddied the waters by trying to find more humane methods with the electric chair and lethal injection. New doubts were expressed on efficiency, new problems occurred from voltage and chemicals. These all contributed to people taking their eyes off the main goal: punishing murderers. In Britain hanging was nailed down to a fine art, a science, and murderers were put to death with remarkable speed. As little as 10 seconds from cell to trapdoor. No fanfare or fuss. And definately no media interviews on television a few days before.
It should be reinstated with haste before we slide into brutal wastelands where good people hide from the lash of a blade or stray bullet. We will save a lot more than money by having the death penalty brought back. If we were halfway decent we would admit defeat regarding the pathetic sentences passed for murder, and instead of trying to find good in the killer we should honour the good that was in the victim. Giving a 8 to 12 year term isn't justice or punishment enough, in fact it is yet another strike to the victim. That we should be content to free murderers after such a feeble term is testament to mans failing in understanding the effects of such a crime. Man will not be Man for long if the spirit breaks.
All the good intentions of those who oppose capital punishment will be drowned in untamed seas ruled by predators. Death feeds on death its true but in times when even a wrong look can earn your cemetery stay then this most ancient of punishment must be handed to all those who murder.